When Ronald Reagan walloped Jimmy Carter in the 1980 presidential election, political experts “discovered” those voters for the first time: traditionally Democratic, working-class whites in ...

In March 1965, a washed-up B-movie actor dialed a couple of young Republican operatives and invited them to lunch at his home ...

But Carter, a former Georgia governor who ... Kennedy of Massachusetts for the 1980 Democratic presidential nomination, was crushed by GOP nominee Ronald Reagan in the general election, with ...

Jimmy Carter, a one-time Georgia peanut farmer who served a single term as president of the United States in the late 1970s, died Sunday. He was 100 years old and the oldest American president, ...